InDesign CS2 - Importing Tables created by table 3.0 (pagemaker)

[Yaeko_Minamikawa@adobeforums.com]

I created tables in Table 3.0 attached with page maker 7.
Can we import the tables into In Design CS2?

[Bob Levine]

Not directly. You'll need save them as EPS files to place in ID...same
as Pagemaker.

But I would strongly encourage you to recreate them in ID as native
table. Adobe Table was, IMO, the worst abomination of software ever to
carry the Adobe name.

Bob

[Jeffrey_Smith@adobeforums.com]

If your are comparing Adobe Table to today's standards, it may not measure up. But during its time as a companion to Pagemaker, it wasn't that bad... let's see you create a table with spot colors in Excel...

[Bob Levine]

It can be done with ID/Excel.

Create the table and fully format it using colors and fonts you want.
Place it in InDesign. The Excel RGB colors will come with it.

Change the colors to spot in the swatch palette and voila.

Bob

[Jay_Chevako@adobeforums.com]

Adobe Table was horrible, when I could get it to work the resulting
pagemaker file would rarely rip correctly. I wouldn't use excel either,
I switched to Quark for my annual reports, until ID got decent tables.
(and yest they were two color tables).
Jay